‘High School Mil’ Director Confirms Ryan Evans Is Gay

Contents:

• GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI FALLY GET A LOVE SONG OF THEIR OWN
• GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI HOPE TO BE THE REPRENTATN THEY NEVER HAD
• ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ DIRECTOR KENNY ORTEGA CONFIRMS LUS GRABEEL’S CHARACTER RYAN EVANS IS GAY
• THANKS TO WHNEY HOTON, ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ HAS S FIRST GAY ROMANCE
• THE DIRECTOR OF "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" EXPLAED WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY AND SAID HE WOULD "COME OUT IN COLLEGE"
• HIGH SCHOOL MIL THEORY SUGGTS TWO CHARACTERS WERE GAY AND A RELATNSHIP
• HIGH SCHOOL MIL (FALLY!) HAS AN OUT GAY TEEN

GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI FALLY GET A LOVE SONG OF THEIR OWN

The romance between East High School’s gay teens epens on “High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri” this week wh the but of a tenr love ballad. Season 1 of “High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri” garnered praise ahead of s 2019 Disney+ premiere for troducg Carlos as the anchise’s first-ever gay teen. Rodriguez stars on the Disney+ seri as stunt choreographer Carlos at Utah’s East High School who ― what was billed as a anchise first at the time of the show’s 2019 but ― is gay.

GAY TEENS ON 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' SERI HOPE TO BE THE REPRENTATN THEY NEVER HAD

” So, hdsight, may surprise viewers that “HSM” never clud an openly gay character until now.

Disney+/Fred HayThough the origal “High School Mil” featured Ryan Evans (Lus Grabeel), the tw brother of Ashley Tisdale’s Sharpay who was wily assumed to be gay, the character never formally addrsed his sexualy. The HSM director, who is openly gay himself, nfirmed that Lus Grabeel’s character, Ryan Evans, was as well — even if wasn’t discsed the movi. When the mil film me out 2006, Ortega revealed that he wasn’t sure an openly gay character would’ve been possible.

After three h movi, a ncert tour and untls stage productns, the “High School Mil” anchise troduc s first gay love story wh Friday’s episo of “High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri. ”“Today’s world” was the operative amework for approachg a kd of story that never played out the earlier “High School Mil” films, spe many speculatg — and hopg — that the anchise’s origal choreographer character, Ryan, might be gay. Gay marriage wasn’t legal, so even though seems like that was 50 years away, really wasn’t, ” Rodriguez said.

‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ DIRECTOR KENNY ORTEGA CONFIRMS LUS GRABEEL’S CHARACTER RYAN EVANS IS GAY

”It wasn’t until 2017’s “Andi Mack” that Disney Channel troduced s first gay ma character middle schooler Cys Goodman. News·Posted on 1 Jul 2020The Director Of "High School Mil" Explaed Why Ryan Wasn't Openly Gay And Said He Would "Come Out In College""I was ncerned bee was fay and kids that Disney might not be ready to cross that le.

In a new terview wh Variety, director Kenny Ortega opened up about his experience makg the High School Mil seri and said he thought the character of Ryan would have e out as gay later life.

A lot of them see both Ryan and Kelsi — who went to prom together and had a subtle romantic storyle High School Mil 3 — as gay. Both Ryan and Kelsie are gay and they were each other's beards for senr year. n you believe hsm they tried to pass off kelsi, a leral lbian, as a heterosexual who was datg ryan, a leral gay.

THANKS TO WHNEY HOTON, ‘HIGH SCHOOL MIL’ HAS S FIRST GAY ROMANCE

Ryan om High School Mil has officially been nfirmed as gay and hontly we been knew. Here is the gayt HSM song om the whole three movi. everyone who grew up wh hsm, 10 years later, as adults: He Is Gay.

I Dont Dance Is Gay.

But now Ortega has nfirmed Ryan would probably have e out as gay " llege", addg that his character the movi was "ls about g out and jt more about lettg his te lours e forward". He went on to say that while Disney is "the most progrsive group of people" he's ever worked wh, he had ncerns that they "weren't ready" to have an openly gay character a Disney Channel movie 2006. I wanted people to thk, "That character's more plex than I thought, " stead of sayg, "Oh, he out pk and you know he's gay.

THE DIRECTOR OF "HIGH SCHOOL MIL" EXPLAED WHY RYAN WASN'T OPENLY GAY AND SAID HE WOULD "COME OUT IN COLLEGE"

However, fans now thk there was a homoerotic subtext that many viewers were missg all along. Another fan of the films tweeted: "Chad and Ryan are gay" I say to the mic. " Elsewhere, another noted: "the high school mil 2 scene of I don’t dance is major gay vib between Ryan and chad.

#hsm2 #DisneyPl " A different fan was nvced of Chad and Ryan's love story the third film: "m u s i c a l l y stick to the stat quo outdo i don't dance but 's all about the sweet gay character velopment on both ryan and chad's sis.

They nclud: "ryan and sharpay were both gay. Then last Friday, I saw a post about the song "I Don't Dance" om HSM2 and how was apparently really gay.

HIGH SCHOOL MIL THEORY SUGGTS TWO CHARACTERS WERE GAY AND A RELATNSHIP

So apparently "I Don't Dance" wh Ryan and Chad is one big metaphor for homo/bisexualy, which I never ught as a kid. Here is a post that explas the gay subtext better than I ever uld. Also, Ryan was fely tend to be gay.

"After readg the script, the first thg I said to him was, 'OK, Kenny [Ortega, the director of HSM], Ryan's gay, right? I know 's Disney Channel so I'm not really gonna be gay, but I mean, yeah, right?

Yeah, I knew I was gay high school, but I didn't tell anybody. A gay terracial uple one of the most inic kids' movie trilogi? In the mockumentary-style show, Rodriguez plays Carlos, the gay choreographer of East High's stagg of High School Mil.

HIGH SCHOOL MIL (FALLY!) HAS AN OUT GAY TEEN

The actor is gay and Latx -- and his character Carlos is as well. For Disney, the cln of a queer character kids' entertament is a big al; the fay-foced pany only recently rporated a gay teen on Disney Channel's recently nceled Andy Mack, and the stud has yet to troduce an LGBTQ character one of s major films.

He relled watchg the gay teen character of Jt Suarez (Mark Inlito) on ABC's Ugly Betty, which was "was md-blowg, " he said. "I'm very happy that I got to portray this role bee I was drawg on so much of my actual high school experience and brgg that to the character, " he Carlos, whose sexualy is not an issue for his classmat around him, Rodriguez do not have the "dramatic story beg shoved to lockers" that one might associate wh stori about gay teens -- Glee clud. However, his fears were assuaged by Tim Ferle, the gay creator and shownner of High School Mil: The Mil: The Seri, who helped create a role that was "anic" and "te to life.